May 14, 1999

On-Line Library Offers Research on Persistence of Poverty

By BIANCA P. FLOYD

Scholars have spent years studying how complex interactions of social conditions, public policy, and economic trends keep people in poverty. Now a new Web site, the Smart Library on Urban Poverty, makes the results of some of that research available on line -- where, the site's creators hope, it will be accessible to community leaders and others who might find it useful, but who might never see articles published in scholarly